California voters have approved a new congressional map drawn by state Democrats, NBC News projects, giving the party the chance to gain up to five House seats in next year’s midterm elections and cou

In a major win for Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats, the state can now adopt new maps with more blue-leaning districts.

Proposition 50 would allow California Democrats to replace the state’s congressional maps with ones the party hopes will help them to flip five GOP-held seats.

California Republicans appear poised to lose four to six House seats in next year’s midterms as votes are counted this week in the state’s hastily planned Prop 50. The ballot measure would allow the state’s supermajority Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw congressional maps instead of the existing independent commission.

The national battle to control the U.S. House shifts to California on Tuesday as voters consider a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump’s moves to safeguard his party's lock on Washington power.

After the Texas Legislature passed a controversial Republican-drawn congressional map in August, California lawmakers accused the GOP of trying to rig next year’s midterm elections and vowed to fight back,

California voters approved Proposition 50, a measure that temporarily redraws the state’s congressional maps to put Democrats in a position to flip several seats in the 2026 midterm election. The proposal,